merchimerch | (no subject)

I'm having one of those "does anyone even read this?" kind of moments. I'm wondering about the nature of lj communication - it all seems so one way. By reading peoples ljs I'm sucking up all their one way communication, and people (I think) do the same for me, but does it ever really turn into a dialogue in the way it would if I had a conversation with them? I wonder do I converse less with my friends now because I read their ljs? Of course with some people even having a regular conversation is like have side by side one way communication...anyway, I suppose the point of my lj is not to dialogue with people - at the moment it is to try and record some of my fieldwork year incase my hard drive gets wiped before I get home.

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For me, my LJ is not really about conversation...well, not primarily. Conversation sometimes erupts, and sometimes I post something specifically for other people, but generally my LJ is, for me, a journal. I post my thoughts and opinions. Generally in public, I try always to be diplomatic about things...so there are many opinions I will not say...but in my journal I can say what I think about whatever I think. If people want to read they can, if not, they don't have to.

For me, the LJ is a place where I can speak out loud into the ether unconcerned about who my audience might be and what they might think about it. I allow myself the space to speak freely in my Livejournal...which is not space one always has in everyday life...at least not if one is as concerned about smooth social relations as I tend to be.

So...for me livejournal is primarily a window into my mind, not primarily a place for conversation. Though I never mind if conversation pops up.